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From:
Clint Anderson
To:
Jeff Davis
Cc:
kent williams , do id
Date:
Thu, 13 Jun 2019 17:56:14 -0500
Subject:
Re: Plaid Polymer
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it's like the hold music for a very 'hot' up and coming silicon valley tech firm Clint Anderson Systems Engineer "Freedom -- paint me a picture!" -- Burton Cummings On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 4:29 PM Jeff Davis <jeff@jeffreyjdavis.com> wrote:
quoted 47 lines only if you can beatmatch "Los" , can you earn the right to call them> only if you can beatmatch "Los" , can you earn the right to call them > cliche > thanks, > > Jeffrey J Davis > > jeff@jeffreyjdavis.com > > www.jeffreyjdavis.com > > 218.833.2847 > > > > > On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 4:19 PM Clint Anderson <clinta@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > going to listen a couple more times but > > i dunno, i find a lot of the tracks painfully cliched and predictable, > which has always been my issue with plaid > > 'generic safe music with pseudo-idm percussion' > > > > Clint Anderson > > Systems Engineer > > "Freedom -- paint me a picture!" -- Burton Cummings > > > > > > > > On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 4:00 PM kent williams <chaircrusher@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> > >> Those guys really have a way of being evocatively melodic in a way no > one else seems to even try. Aphex Twin does a good job on a few tracks per > release, but can't keep it up for 13 tracks the way Plaid can. > >> > >> Dancers is perhaps the best exemplar -- unexpected, but emotionally > exciting chord change after chord change. > >> > >> I splurged and got the 24-bit WAV files and I think that's how they > should be heard -- punchy and dynamic and spacious. Haven't blind-tested > them against 16-bit wav (or MP3) but if you're going to shell out for the > album, I have to think it's worth the splurge. > >> > >> I wonder why Warp releases 24-bit WAV files but only 16-bit FLAC files. > FLAC encodes 24-bits just fine; in fact the first thing I do when i > download them is convert them to 24-bit FLAC. >